Possible Clues:

• Puzzle spelling out something with first letters
• Bit of wordplay gets a wrong and right mark, we hear
• Puzzle for Socratic deconstruction
• A company registrar ought sometimes to issue cheques initially
• A compiler's ruse of simply taking initial characters?
• Poem where first letters of lines spell a word
• Puzzle brings on a vexed moment, reportedly
• Puzzle or poem
• Puzzle involving leading characters confused actors in charge
• Verse with a hidden message